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The Beast Within / Emile Zola ; translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse

By:

Zola, Emile, , 1840-1902

Contributor(s):

Whitehouse, Roger

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2007, c1890Description: liv, 405 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780140449631

Other title:

La Bête Humaine

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Love stories

DDC classification:

FIC ZOL

LOC classification:

PQ2511.O4 E5 2008

Summary: Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee. Jacques, meanwhile, must contend with his own terrible impulses, for every time he sees a woman he feels the overwhelming desire to kill. In the company of Roubaud's wife, Severine, he finds peace briefly, yet his feelings for her soon bring disasterous consequences. A key work in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Beast Within is one of Zola's most dark and violent works - a tense thriller of political corruption and a graphic exploration of the criminal mind.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC ZOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004221

Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee. Jacques, meanwhile, must contend with his own terrible impulses, for every time he sees a woman he feels the overwhelming desire to kill. In the company of Roubaud's wife, Severine, he finds peace briefly, yet his feelings for her soon bring disasterous consequences. A key work in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Beast Within is one of Zola's most dark and violent works - a tense thriller of political corruption and a graphic exploration of the criminal mind.

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